existed a vast majority of Catalans, since the community has 7,783,302 million citizens, which They lived through the days of the ‘procés’ with anguish, worry, uncertainty and on occasion fear. It is difficult to make many independentistas understand this, who lived that with illusion, hope and a smile of supposed revolution. But the march of many companies and the vandalism of those October days with burning cars and cracked asphalt, they were not nice.
It is true that the independence movement only remembers those years the ‘Via catalana’ and the peaceful demonstrations. But the rest have in their memory the coup against legality on September 6 and 7 in the Parliament, the siege of the Ministry of Economy and the brawls in Plaza Urquinaona. Memory is always selective.
No one can deny that The Government of Pedro Sánchez has relaxed the tension since those days. The ‘indepe’ Catalonia has forgotten the continuous exaltation. He has an unpleasant feeling of bitterness and deceit. All the promises vanished because they went up in smoke, although it is still difficult for the movement to assume it.
Now the need that Pedro Sánchez has for Carlos Puigdemont they are vitamins dosed by the different parties and subfamilies of the formations, not accepted in the same way by the platforms that promoted the mobilizations in the street. And here the great doubt arises, whose answer is in history. That Catalan nationalism of Pujol he was always insatiable. The independence movement uses the same model. The goal is independence. Sánchez should be clear about any pact.
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The non-independence Catalan voter knows this. He lives it daily. From the Congress of Deputies and the Moncloa everything is perceived differently. Puigdemont, Junqueras and even Pere Aragonès will negotiate with that objective. Dissatisfaction is inherent in the way of doing nationalist politics.
It is true that the constitution of the Table of Congress is only one chapter. Without the round of 16 there is no final. It is true that Puigdemont must show his European colleagues that he knows how to negotiate. That is an asset in favor of Pedro Sánchez. But the risks are too high.